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PNA mediated gene editing

Daniel A. Colón Ríos was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He graduated in 2018 from Universidad de Puerto Rico - Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (UPR-RUM) with a major in Chemistry. He subsequently moved to New Haven and joined Dr. Faye Rogers lab as a postgraduate associate, where he studied the cellular response to excessive levels of nucleotide-excision repair (NER)-recognized DNA damage. As a postgraduate associate, he also completed the Yale Cancer Center Cancer Biology Training Program (CBTP) and served as an interpreter at the HAVEN Free Clinic.  Daniel is now a third year MD-PhD Student in the Glazer Lab studying PARP inhibitor resistance mechanisms. He serves as class representative in the Diversity & Inclusion Committee and continues to be involved in the Student National Medical Association - Latino Medical Student Association (SNMA-LMSA) joint chapter at Yale School of Medicine. Out of academics, Daniel enjoys spending time with friends, playing volleyball, going to the beach and traveling.

Biochemistry and structural biology of DNA binding proteins involved in cancer research.

Small molecule DNA repair inhibitors

Mouse tumor modeling

Tumor hypoxia, DNA repair, and drug resistance

A native of Kansas City, Anna graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. She joined the MD/PhD program at the Yale School of Medicine in 2017. Currently, Anna is conducting her graduate thesis work in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, where she is focused on in utero delivery of polymeric nanoparticles for fetal gene therapy. Anna’s clinical interests include adolescent gynecology, neonatal medicine, and fetal therapy.

Tumor targeting by antibodies and peptides